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Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« on: April 14, 2011, 02:02:22 PM »
IIRC it started with Phase5 (known before as advanced systems and software). Later Amiga International agreed with P5 to go ppc. I think P5 came along with ppc when Amiga was lost in limbo - somewhen after the crash of C= and before Escom/AI started.
P5 did a good job though, the successor company bplan, too.
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Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2011, 05:44:00 PM »
Back in the days the decision to go ppc was quite good. ppc was pretty much on par with x86 then, if not leading. Also the cpus were smaller and less energy hungry - important for A1200 expansion boards.
That ppc eventually more or less failed in desktop land was rather bad luck.
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